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CAPTCHAs Are Getting Harder Because AI Is Getting Smarter

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CAPTCHAs Are Getting Harder Because AI Is Getting Smarter

By Jon Christian

Amazon responded to recent criticism its facial recognition system, Rekognition, by claiming safeguards were in place. The cops using it disagree.

Facial recognition

Cops Are Using Amazon’s Facial Recognition Software Wrong

By Dan Robitzski

A new algorithmic tool can determine if artificial intelligence is biased and then go in and retrain the system to treat people more equitably.

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A New Algorithm Trains AI to Erase its Biases

By Dan Robitzski

A new 100-level platformer game designed by Unity's algorithms will test artificial intelligence systems' problem-solving skills.

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Hellishly Hard New Game Is Specifically Designed to Confound AI

By Dan Robitzski

According to a massive analysis by MIT Technology Review, the AI research community may soon move away from deep learning toward something new.

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Analysis: “The Era of Deep Learning Is Coming to an End”

By Dan Robitzski

Alphabet's DeepMind AI dominated at the game of StarCraft II beating two of the world's best (human) players 5-0 in a best-of-five.

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StarCraft Champion Trounced by AI: “Very Human Style of Gameplay”

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's facial recognition software, Rekognition, struggles to identify the gender of women with darker skin, suggesting ongoing algorithmic bias.

Facial recognition

Amazon’s Facial Recognition Struggles With Darker Skin

By Dan Robitzski

A growing group of people identify themselves as "digisexuals" — a provocative term for people who are attracted to robots and artificial intelligences.

“Digisexuals” Are Falling In Love With — And Lusting For — Robots

By Jon Christian

Researchers have created an AI they claim is able to accurately predict the type and location of a tennis player's next shot.

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Ball-Tracking AI Can Predict Your Tennis Opponent’s Next Shot

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland taught its four-legged robot dog how to get up after being kicked using AI — a valuable life skill.

This Robot Dog Can Recover From a Vicious Kick Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

Henn na Hotel in Japan is reportedly decommissioning half of the robots it used to have running the show. Too many were buggy or just plain annoying.

Japan’s Robot Hotel Just Laid Off Half Its Robots

By Dan Robitzski

A new research project aims to harness the power of the quantum computer to build a new type of neural network that "acts like a brain."

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Scientists Are Building a Quantum Computer That “Acts Like a Brain”

By Jon Christian

The Pentagon's emerging technologies unit put out a call last week for proposals that use insect brains to control robots.

DARPA Wants to Build Conscious Robots Using Insect Brains

By Jon Christian

Google Brain Built a Translator so AI Can Explain Itself

Google Brain Built a Translator so AI Can Explain Itself

By Dan Robitzski

IBM’s New AI System Can Compose Logical Arguments

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IBM’s New AI System Can Compose Logical Arguments

By Dan Robitzski

Kai-Fu Lee, a venture capitalist who used to develop AI for Google and Microsoft, predicts that AI will automate 40 percent of the world's jobs in 15 years.

Former Google Exec: AI Will Replace 40 Percent of Jobs in 15 Years

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. government's proposed AI export restrictions could backfire on the nation in a number of ways, according to Silicon Valley insiders.

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U.S. Plan to Restrict AI Exports Could Backfire

By Kristin Houser

On Friday, Elon Musk speculated that a sophisticated artificial intelligence might touch down on the Red Planet before the first human Mars settler.

Elon Musk Thinks the First Mars Settler Could Be an AI

By Jon Christian

A group of researchers at Yale University successfully taught a robotic system about ownership relations and the social norms that surround those relations.

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Researchers Taught an AI About Ownership Rules and Social Norms

By Victor Tangermann

An AI created by Stanford transformed typical Christmas leftovers into new recipes, which the BBC then cooked up and tasted so you don't have to.

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AIs Whip Christmas Leftovers Into Loathsome New Recipes

By Kristin Houser

Researchers at NVIDIA created a neural network that can come up with incredibly realistic faces on the spot.

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Look at These Incredibly Realistic Faces Generated By A Neural Network

By Victor Tangermann

CAPTCHAs Are Dead, And Neural Networks Killed Them

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CAPTCHAs Are Dead, And Neural Networks Killed Them

By Victor Tangermann

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These Full-Body Deepfakes are Like Nothing We’ve Ever Seen

By Dan Robitzski

New research found a definition of "trust" that could be programmed into a robot's software. But it turns out we still trust machines more than they do us.

Scientists Want to Teach Robots to Know When to Trust Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian thinks that Elon Musk's dire warnings about AI's dark future are ridiculous. But he has his own warnings about AI.

Reddit Co-founder Mocks Elon Musk’s Warnings About AI

By Dan Robitzski

Listen To An AI’s Nightmarish Beatboxing

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Listen To An AI’s Nightmarish Beatboxing

By Victor Tangermann

How Google Challenged Coders to Make AI More Culturally Aware

How Google Challenged Coders to Make AI More Culturally Aware

By Dan Robitzski

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This AI Avatar Compliments While You Shop So You’ll Buy More Stuff

By Dan Robitzski

In a video clip, Cimon, an AI bot designed to test robot-astronaut interactions, refuses to respond to commands and acts defensive — just like a teenager.

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Watch the ISS’s New AI Robot Companion Act Like Kind of a Brat

By Kristin Houser

NVIDIA's latest AI technology can recreate an entire 3D scene by learning from a real-life video.

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New AI Dreams Up Trippy Video Games Based on Real Life Video

By Victor Tangermann

How Killer Robots Will Know They’ve Been Blasted With a Shotgun

How Killer Robots Will Know They’ve Been Blasted With a Shotgun

By Dan Robitzski

Seattle-based startup DroneSeed uses swarms of drones powered by artificial intelligence to plant trees in areas devastated by wildfires.

Swarms of Drones Can Now Plant Trees in Areas Devastated by Fires

By Kristin Houser

Uber's AI lab just developed a reinforcement learning system that can learn from its mistakes. Now it can beat video games that always had AI stumped.

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Humans Teamed up With a New Kind of AI to Crush a Notoriously Difficult Video Game

By Dan Robitzski

NVIDIA has signed deals with three Chinese autonomous car startups to use their self-driving car platform.

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Chip Maker NVIDIA is Bringing Its AI Driving Chip to China

By Victor Tangermann

A new pair of AI algorithms can draw lifelike caricatures. Built by Microsoft and City University of Hong Kong, the work will be shown at SIGGRAPH Asia.

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Check Out These Impressive Caricatures Drawn By AI

By Dan Robitzski

To Bolster Cybersecurity, France Gives Google the Guillotine

To Bolster Cybersecurity, France Gives Google the Guillotine

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA spent $68 million over two years on deepfake-spotting AI. It's making progress, but the government might be fighting a losing battle.

DARPA Spent $68 Million on Technology to Spot Deepfakes

By Dan Robitzski

Using a new AI system, researchers within the infant scientific discipline asteroseismology can learn more about the subsurface activity of distant stars.

New AI Is Peering Into the Nuclear Cores of Distant Stars

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Harvard scientists just launched a new initiative to steer the U.S. towards better AI policy. Soon, they'll teach Congress the basics.

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Harvard Is Launching an “AI Bootcamp” For Tech-Phobic Lawmakers

By Dan Robitzski

Google engineers trained a neural net on thousands of song lyrics and classic novels. It wrote some songs and we think they're fantastic.

Google Trained a Neural Net to Write Cringey Song Lyrics

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at Aalborg University in Denmark are proposing to use AI robots to survey water pipes under the ground. And it could save cities millions.

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Surveillance Robots Could Help Maintain Sewer Systems

By Victor Tangermann

As more AI research is shared with the public, more hobbyists are picking it up and building algorithms to help them with everyday life

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How a Neural Network Runs a Family-Owned Japanese Dry Cleaner

By Dan Robitzski

A combination of machine learning and new data gathering tools could help warn firefighters in California earlier and possibly even save lives.

Machine Learning

How Machine Learning Could Help California Fight Wildfires

By Jon Christian

Walmart plans to create an Intelligent Retail Lab (IRL) in its Levittown location to explore how AI could improve the shopping experience.

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Walmart Wants to Use AI to Track Everything Happening in Its Stores

By Kristin Houser

The Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) has selected 31 students to participate in a four-year-long program focused on developing AI weapons.

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China Recruits “Patriotic” Children to Develop Its AI Weapons

By Kristin Houser

We tested that AI Portrait generator on a bunch of celebrities and politicians. The results ranged from "okay I see it" to "hard nope."

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Here’s What AI Thinks A Bunch of Famous People Look Like

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese state media agency Xinhua just revealed the world's first "AI anchor." But it's not going to fool anybody.

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Meet The World’s First AI News Anchor

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft just created a new AI system that can scan a news column and pull out the most important facts for quicker reading.

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Microsoft’s New Neural Network Summarizes the News — Erratically

By Dan Robitzski

A new online tool, "AI Portraits" takes a photo of your face and uses artificial intelligence to try and generate a realistic portrait.

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This Website Will Generate an AI Portrait of You

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at MIT developed a machine learning model that can detect depression by analyzing speech and the way patients talk.

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AI Can Tell If You’re Depressed by Listening to You Talk

By Victor Tangermann

A new AI agent taught itself, using reinforcement learning, how to get dressed in the morning. The results could make animation much easier on artists.

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Having a Bad Day? An Adorable Video Shows AI Learning to Get Dressed

By Dan Robitzski

A new machine learning algorithm built by 20th Century Fox can compare movie trailers and predict which films will appeal to an audience.

Machine Learning

Fox is Using Machine Learning to Predict Which Movies Will be Hits

By Dan Robitzski

New AI Thinks Like a Scientist to Explain the Physics of Virtual Worlds

New AI Thinks Like a Scientist to Explain the Physics of Virtual Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

Malta launched a new AI task force to develop a plan for safe, effective, beneficial AI. It will also determine how a robot might earn citizenship.

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The Island Nation Malta Created a Citizenship Test for Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Whether it's to manage the world better than we do or give us new insight into how our own minds work, many experts agree we should make a human-level AI.

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Why Should We Bother Building Human-Level AI? Five Experts Weigh In

By Dan Robitzski

A vaping detection system with AI-powered sensors is alerting officials in the U.S. and Canada to the signs of vaping in school bathrooms.

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Schools Are Installing Bathroom Surveillance Systems to Bust Vapers

By Kristin Houser

AI-Generated Halloween Music Is a Cool Idea, But it Sounds Awful

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AI-Generated Halloween Music Is a Cool Idea, But it Sounds Awful

By Victor Tangermann

Google just announced a $25 million contest that asks people to develop AI systems that actually benefit society for a change.

Google Wants You to Build AI That Benefits Society

By Dan Robitzski

Spain is rolling out an AI lie detector called VeriPol at many of its police stations, which uses machine learning to flag false police reports.

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This AI Lie Detector Flags Falsified Police Reports

By Jon Christian

AI could help predict earthquakes

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Scientists Are Hopeful AI Could Help Predict Earthquakes

By Jon Christian

Google Adds AI Fairness Lessons to Its Machine Learning Crash Course

Google Adds AI Fairness Lessons to Its Machine Learning Crash Course

By Kristin Houser

IBM's quantum computers will change technology

IBM: Quantum Computers Could Be Useful, But We Don’t Know Exactly How

By Dan Robitzski

This Week in Tech: Oct 13 – Oct 20

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This Week in Tech: Oct 13 – Oct 20

By Victor Tangermann

Tokyo-based robotics company Preferred Networks demonstrated its mostly effective but super slow tidying robots at a Japanese convention.

These Tidying Robots Clean Up Toys, Put Roomba to Shame

By Kristin Houser